Comments on: Whoever Brought me Here Will Have to Take me Home

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:16:15 +0000

I think so Susan, i think so.

By: Susan Gallacher-Turner

Susan Gallacher-Turner — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:54:02 +0000

Isn’t that the essence of home…really…that belonging, the unconditional embrace of your heart?

By: amarja

amarja — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:25:20 +0000

dear jenn, I love the honesty with which you write. I love living in amsterdam and have been staying in the same house for 15 years, so that is not my problem… I do recognize the feeling of looking for a place to call home as there always was this sense of: THIS IS NOT REALLY MY HOME! what am I doing on this planet? I just wanna go back!!!! I think they call it spiritual homesickness…. There was a place once….of love and light and a deep sense of belonging… And my journey is to get that sense of belonging more and more, here and now, right here in this life.
Since I practise gratitude I do feel more and more at home here, and that is a real blessing.
There is a book about home which people may enjoy, it has lots of beautiful poetry quotes in it too,
All sickness is homesickness, dianne m. connelly 1986 isbn 0-912379-02-2.
I might be out of print, but I adore it.
let’s all try to meet our longing for home, with love and find some people to be at home with, amarja

By: Moving, Attachment, Loss, Gain « Off Trajectory

Moving, Attachment, Loss, Gain « Off Trajectory — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:38:53 +0000

[...] her home and start moving. This morning I read this lovely poem by Hiro Boga: Going Away and about Jen Louden’s determination to just stay put. The rupture that is moving is on my [...]

By: Sally Stanton

Sally Stanton — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:37:17 +0000

Jen, along comes your post about home (I really love that Rumi quote), and minutes later while logging into my Yahoo mail, I was captivated by a story on Jay Shafer, the man who lives in (and builds) tiny houses – the smallest is 89 square feet! (www.tumbleweedhouses.com) That small house is a beautiful wooden cottage on wheels, so he can just hook it up and tow it anywhere he wants. I was thinking RV (as opposed to yurt – referring to previous posts about farms and escapes), but these are real houses! I can’t decide whether it would be cozy or claustrophobic, but the idea of a movable but homey home really appeals to me. Maybe I am ready for home to be wherever I am, instead of somewhere out there, somewhere else. As usual, when I visit CQ, I always find what I need. Love you, Jen.